Olegs worst competitors (?) - Microsoft Flight have released new screens...

[ElAurens]

I want to bag a 747 with that F-18 and listen to the shock and wailing on the ATC comms channel.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I want to bag a 747 with that F-18 and listen to the shock and wailing on the ATC comms channel.

careful, you never know who might be listening on the internet

big brother is watching you!

[Jaws2002]

The more sims the better for us. I have most of them and most are fun.
One warning tho. Don't get your hopes high on MS promo screenshots!!!!!
Wait for the game. Any of you remember the difference between MS FSX DX10 promo screens and the actual game.?

FSX became a nice game, but it took a few generations of hardware, and a whole bunch of addons to make it run decent and look good.

[Antoninus]

I hope MS has learned their lesson after all the turmoil created with the faked FSX DX10 screenshots. FSX with a couple of third party add ons can looks almost as good the new Flight screenshots, so I expect that they are real this time. Some in the community already expressed their disappointment that the progress in visuals between Flight and FSX won't be as big as they anticipated.

[highness]

i doubt that new MS Flightsimulator will be a threat to il-2, since it is mostly based on general aviation with POOR and nearly unexisting simulation, it is aimed at general public audience and the major "luring in" effect is the beautiful environment and graphics (which is an important sell out factor for a commercial game)

[maclean525]

OK, so there are two possibilities here. Either everyone posting in this thread that IL-2 looks better are being paid to say it by Steve Jobs or they are legally blind. These screen shots look wonderful, what's the issue?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by maclean525

OK, so there are two possibilities here. Either everyone posting in this thread that IL-2 looks better are being paid to say it by Steve Jobs or they are legally blind. These screen shots look wonderful, what's the issue?

Microsoft has a history of false advertising and very crappy graphics down low and away from any airfield. I do like the the screenshots, but I would be very very very skeptical on their quality at low level.

Microsoft does a great job on takeoff procedures, climb to 10,000ft and navigate to your destination, but if you like low level site seeing forget about it, unless you spend a tidy some on all the third party terrain updates. Either way it would probably soon get boring if your primarily a combat flight sim pilot. Although I never had time to get bored with FSX as it was so damn ugly down low I quit flying it.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by maclean525

OK, so there are two possibilities here. Either everyone posting in this thread that IL-2 looks better are being paid to say it by Steve Jobs or they are legally blind. These screen shots look wonderful, what's the issue?

Mmm, the reason for me being pessimistic is that it is obvious that Flight is just FSX with some tweaks, and FSX looks good at some places high up, but looks like crap on most places down low. To make my point I fired up FSX Acceleration right now and took two "ms web site" shots (no addons) and one "the real FSX shot" at Ultra everything settings (all settings at max accept cloud range at 30%)

Here we have Grand Canyon in dawn... I sure could find a better place and more dramatic sunset if I put more than five minutes to it. Just searched Grand Canyon and took off and took the shot.


EDIT: OK, I put in five more minutes and took off from Honolulu in sunset:


And here we have the "white" cliffs of Dover down low...


Most places you fly look like Dover, but the screenies look like Grand Canyon or Honolulu - that's my point!

Anyone want to discuss the palette or the selection of spruce trees and Large multifloor buildings in the Kent countryside? The color of the cliffs anyone?

Yes, I know they cover the whole world and then it gets like this...

EDIT: Yes I forgot the mapping for the darn brakes, in FSX it's no problem taking off with full brakes in a tail dragger anyway

EDIT again - the people complaining about the CoD beta shots being too green maybe want something like this? (could not resist it )

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

As has been said before MS have always shown screenshot's of their forthcoming sim that are nowhere to be seen in the finished version, only they could get away with this

Remember the image they claimed was from their DX10 version of FSX, it turned out to be an artists interpretation, but it was claimed at the time as the real deal and how it was necessary to buy the then new Vista to enjoy DX10 like this ... fool me once shame on me, fool me twice ... we all know the drill

Their dodgy practises made the Inquirer ...

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...eading-picture

Judge for yourself ...

The Inq has been my favorite site for many years They must have loved this "open goal" groin kick at "the vole"...

[Il2Pongo]

Originally Posted by maclean525

OK, so there are two possibilities here. Either everyone posting in this thread that IL-2 looks better are being paid to say it by Steve Jobs or they are legally blind. These screen shots look wonderful, what's the issue?

Or you like grossly exaggerated streams and rivers. Look at any of those 4 pictures, particularly number 4.
The result to me is one that is unrealistic and unappealing.
You love it I guess, maybe you have never flown over such terrain so as to know its not even close.